Breathing Quote by Richard Pipes

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

— Margaret Thatcher

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical…

— Agnes Smedley

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not…

— Amor Towles

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

— Karl Liebknecht

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

— Georgy Zhukov

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for…

— James Forrestal

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

— William J. Clinton

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism,…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn